"As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

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“I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”
“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”
“There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.”
“Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If youâ€™re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulseâ€”the key vital sign of a company.”
“The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.”
“It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

Source : "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.”
“I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.”

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